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diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml
index d6d000539..7729ef692 100644
--- a/man/hostnamectl.xml
+++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml
@@ -69,11 +69,9 @@
(e.g. "Lennart's Laptop"), the static hostname which
is used to initialize the kernel hostname at boot
(e.g. "lennarts-laptop"), and the transient hostname
- which might be assigned temporarily due to network
- configuration and might revert back to the static
- hostname if network connectivity is lost and is only
- temporarily written to the kernel hostname
- (e.g. "dhcp-47-11").
+ which is a default received from network configuration.
+ If a static hostname is set, and is valid (something other
+ than localhost), then the transient hostname is not used.
Note that the pretty hostname has little
restrictions on the characters used, while the static
@@ -86,7 +84,12 @@
for more information. The pretty hostname, chassis
type, and icon name are stored in
/etc/machine-info, see
- machine-id5.
+ machine-info5.
+
+ Use
+ systemd-firstboot1
+ to initialize the system host name for mounted (but
+ not booted) system images.
@@ -103,26 +106,6 @@
operations.
-
-
-
-
- Acquire privileges via PolicyKit
- before executing the operation.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Execute the operation
- remotely. Specify a hostname, or
- username and hostname separated by @,
- to connect to. This will use SSH to
- talk to the remote
- system.
-
-
@@ -145,6 +128,8 @@
+
+
@@ -256,7 +241,8 @@
hostname5,
machine-info5,
systemctl1,
- systemd-hostnamed.service8
+ systemd-hostnamed.service8,
+ systemd-firstboot1